skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The usual term for this is "regulatory arbitrage."

I do want to take exception to one point though:

> Of course regulations that truly protect the public interest are necessary. But many regulations are created by incumbents to protect their market position. To try new things, entrepreneurs need to find a back door. And when they succeed, it will all look obvious in retrospect. Today’s regulatory hack is tomorrow’s mainstream industry.

It's really a lot more complex than this. A lot of the regulations that seem obviously protectionist now really weren't at the time they were implemented.

The FCC is rife with examples of seemingly protectionist regulations because one of the core parts of its mission is to ensure universal coverage. It exists to ensure that every little town in the US gets access to the new communications technologies within a reasonable time.

Things like local monopolies/duopolies are the tool that the FCC uses to get companies to serve areas that the free market would leave unserved. The FCC says: "okay, you get a duopoly in Chicago, but you have to build out service to Belleville, IL."

The taxi regulations operate much in the same way. If taxi companies were left to their own devices, they just wouldn't operate in the sketchier parts of town. They'd refuse to drive you to the Bronx. Protectionist regulations are the concession that municipalities give to taxi companies in return for forcing them to provide certain services and maintain certain rates.

You'll also see a lot of this in the utility industry. Local monopolies with guaranteed rates of return are an incentive municipalities use to get companies to provide power/water/gas to everyone, instead of just the places where it's profitable.

Municipal regulation is a very complex topic, both legally and in terms of economic theory. You can't consider the regulations standing alone, when you're talking about industries that in some way form the infrastructure of the city or relate to urban planning. You have to consider them in the context of being alternatives to the cities building out certain infrastructure themselves as part of their mandate to provide service to each one of their citizens.
Be sure to leave it at that snide remark and not actually explain the flaw in my reasoning, so that I can avoid learning something.
I think it's interesting that although we imagine we're part of a free culture and a free market, a cultural artifact that succeeds and becomes popular on its own merits is a rare thing with a special designation ("viral"). No special designation is needed for cultural artifacts that only become popular with the assistance of the professional hype classes, because that's considered the default condition for popular things.
Also, the flawless wooden table.
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I found some command on the web to change the font smoothness.
Here is it and with option 1. It looks quite great than earlier.

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1
That would be the definition of 'doesn't work' I think.
The "suspicious" case you mention is explicitly supported by the system; you can actually write the question and answer at the same time if you want. The normal content rules still apply, of course; if the question isn't about an actual problem, you're more likely to win a bundle of downvotes.
Airbnb and Uber are running up against regs problems. Is Aereo? Aereo is being sued by rightsholders, who argue that as the parties that fund the creation of content, it should be up to them how to commercialize it. Copyright isn't regulation. Copyright infringement is a tort.

The regulatory hurdle Nextel faced is also different from the ones Airbnb and Uber face. If you took Airbnb out of the picture, it's unlikely that HN would be so friendly towards the idea that giant hotel corporations should be able to operate with zero regulations.

But if Marriott must be regulated, it's reasonable (though not dispositive) for them to note that it's unfair for them to be structurally disadvantaged by competing with businesses that effectively arbitrage regulations (and, more importantly, regulatory enforcement).
xen: you can install any kernel
openvz: only the host kernel gets shared amoung guests and less isolation. also in the past there was no swap support, seems to work now.
Great explanation. This is one of my biggest frustrations with git.
I think that is the point. Anyone starting now can make their own decisions and approach an enriched distribution like this with new eyes (beginner's mind?)

Anyone else might just need a 'standard' vim because they work on remote terminals into servers on which custom packages cannot be installed, or perhaps they are used to the 'old ways'.
How do I delete a thread?
Actually, private sharing is in the works :). Once most of the core functionality is in, I'll be posting a Show HN topic for it! Re: Associating with users, perhaps you can utilise the #hashtag functionality to tag other users by their HN username? (Yes, another functionality that is "under development"... Heh) Or did you want to see this be done automatically for HN users?
I'm not sure what you mean by "out of context" but I will <asssume> you mean "an email that has nothing to do with the original conversation"

This particular version relies on Google's conversation grouping implementation to extract the appropriate emails. If someone replies out of context, that would be up to a human to move into a new Thread. We had some thoughts like "fork from here" or "create a new conversation".

Right now your email conversations are not automatically sync'd but when they are, any reply to your email conversation (what Gmail interprets as such) would be appended to the page.

Unintended Consequences? Isn't that the whole idea? ;)
Did not know that at all, thanks :O!
I was at his presentation. It sure is shiny. The ships look really cool and I'm a big fan of the way they seem to control. I really hope this takes off. Wing Commander sits in a special place in my heart.
You'll have that by the end of the day. (Promise!)
is it me or erlang would sort of fit nicely into the core's ideology of data processing? Seems that LD is like set constant. there are external STR commands. You can have data loaded into registers from the code - MOV. Not an expert in Erlang but it seem that two ideologies can beneficial to one another.

And if it is so, should expecting Erlang compiler be out of the question? :)
Actually, it comes from very old ages.

Is there any peer-review of Tibetan medicine?)
No one does what's good for mankind - they do what's best for themselves.

Just add a "in financial markets" after "No one" and you get my stamp of approval.
I found the full text here:

http://www.naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/Science/Jaynes,%20E....

The first couple pages are a bit funny looking, but after that, there are all 500+ pages. It was the fourth result on Google for me.
For all of the discussion about how to create distributed social networks I'm surprised there aren't more things built on top of email. This is nice. There's a lot of potential here.
AirBnB is classic regulatory arbitrage.

Basically you have a type of business, a hotel, that creates a negative externality in an area. You have regulations and zoning that attempt to minimize that negative externality, or at least isolate it to commercial areas. Then you have AirBnB arbitraging those regulations to profit.
Now - I could definately see this behind a password as a means of managing/storing/retaining email with attachments for a business.

Something with a little intelligence which referenced meetings & other emails would be a sick corporate knowledge base.
Are you implying that concepts of people in your mind are themselves self aware?
This is my project. I was surprised to see it on HN today. It has a lot in common with Janus on the surface. IMO Janus is also a good project.

Where it differs is spf13-vim is focused on cross platform dependency, keeping with vanilla vim feel and having no external dependencies (with the exception of git).

My understanding on Janus is that it focuses on Ruby (spf13-vim supports Ruby well, but Python, JavaScript, PHP, Shell, Scala and a bunch more as well). Janus includes many plugins that depend on Vim Ruby support and is definitely focused on the MacVim platform.

My goal was a Vim configuration you could run anywhere whether Linux, Mac or Windows to efficiently develop in any language.

Hopefully you will find the quality control is good, general feedback is very positive. If you find issues please submit a issue on github or even better a pull request. You can see that I'm very responsive to pull requests.
This is not a case of "the experience isn't quite right". Finance is a heavily regulated area and failure to dot your i's and cross your t's could mean jail time or fines consisting of very large sums of money. Furthermore, failure to understand how to protect against fraud in each region is a costly mistake (one PayPal spent $300M learning).

Sometime "launch it and hope for the best" is not the right answer (though it very often is).
And that's why I love HN. I had no idea about that worldwonders page. Thanks!
Taxi regulation also serves the purpose of creating consequences for harming the community. A taxi medallion is valuable. A profile on a dating site isn't. There is no cost-effective way for us to police every vehicle on the street; you'll learn this quickly if you get your license suspended when you realize that basically nothing happens as a result as long as you're a reasonable driver).

So instead, we create a different class of vehicles, require that only vehicles from that class can carry passengers for hire, and when those vehicles are driven unsafely we can revoke their licenses. It's hard to see how you can reliably revoke someone's online car dating license.
One take away point from this for non-c coders is that higher level languages will always be significantly slower than C because it's far easier to make these kinds of fiddly pipeline optimizations when you don't have another abstraction layer in between mucking things up. There's few java programmers for instance that both intuitevly understand how both the machine architecture, and the JVM compiler will affect the code they write. There's too many quirks. While in theory it's possible to write comparably fast java code(assuming your willing to do sketchy things for memory manipulation related tasks). In practice it's significantly more difficult to get all the juice out with higher level languages.
Interview with a blind programmer
Seems like that's why they are investing more on Retina displays.
^ Completely agreed.
Love the application fee. Heres to hopping it comes to subscription billing soon!
There is a fraction of Airbnb's client base that is purely regulatory arbitrage --- the people who buy buildings and rent out all the rooms on Airbnb.

But there's also a large fraction of Airbnb's business that is generating value. The 4-bedroom 2-storey townhouse in W'burg that Airbnb has isn't available on the hotel market at any price, and the owner of that very valuable property has lots of incentive to keep it up, but because he's at Cornell for the next several years, the house is a cash-flow drag to him. Everybody wins when he carefully rents it out on Airbnb.

The challenge is to come up with a system of regulations that works for both circumstances.
This is a not-for-profit event and every penny will be spent on flying in the best speakers and providing a really amazing experience for the attendees, many of which are coming in from out of town. In fact, we'd have to charge much more if not for the financial support of our sponsors.
You're confusing "proprietary software" and "proprietary technology". They're not the same thing.

There are lots of examples of open-source software implementing proprietary technologies of various sorts (example: x264). There are lots of examples of proprietary software implementing open technologies of various sorts (example: Opera).

I'm not talking about the licensing model for the NaCl source code; I'm talking about the openness or not of the entire NaCl technology stack.

As far as folks at Mozilla go, I think they might point you at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_spot_openwashing...
See my comment above. It's similar. Some material differences are that It doesn't require Ruby on the host system to install. This is a huge difference.

It only requires git and vim to install. The bundles have some similarities, but again key differences here are that none of these bundles require vim being compiled with +python or +ruby support.

Lastly it's focused working well for editing any language in any OS.

No criticisms of Janus, it's a good project, just took a different approach to the same problem.
Anyone know why this page refers to Litchfield Island as "the island most frequently seen in dreams?"
Yep, I'm still going to. There's some difference between our ideas and I think they're both valuable for different segments. I should have a show HN within a week.
They don't have multithreading.
You are symulating them as self-aware. And what's the difference, if you can predict their actions with high accuracy?
Yeah, I'll definitely get in touch soon. Cheers!
This is awesome and I've already been building an MVP based on Stripe connect. Hoping to launch it this week.

FYI, for Rails developers, there's a nice Omniauth/Stripe strategy:
https://github.com/isaacsanders/omniauth-stripe-platform
If I'm not mistake, vundle doesn't use git submodules, pathogen does.
MRAM joy
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I am wondering the same. Maybe an USB stick is faster/bigger?

Actually, they probably run their own firmware/config/whatever on the SD or something, so they can manage stuff.
Buy second hand electronics? Go pay as you go using a 'dumb phone' for calls and a wifi device (tablet, iPad, iTouch or similar or even a netbook) for rich media?
I previously used pathogen + git submodules .. It was very challenging to manage and much harder to keep up to date.

Vundle has proved a significantly better system for keeping things managed and uses the exact same approach and code as pathogen. It's hard to criticize vundle and support pathogen since they are so similar.
Although Stackexchange puts in some mild game dynamics to make it a competition. At least for some, if you're into that kind of thing.
>But that's not more likely than any one of thousands of other possible explanations which there is no specific evidence for.

True, but the point I wanted to make is that Occam's Razor doesn't give us the "true story", just the more possible given the evidence we have.

I.e sometimes the complex, involved story can be the actual thing that happened, despite involving 20 more entities and complex interactions.
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Their abstract starts, "Observable consequences of the hypothesis that the observed universe is a numerical simulation performed on a cubic space-time lattice or grid are explored." They're not saying that's how it works, but since that's one of the few ways we can imagine simulating the universe, it's reasonable to look for its signature.

I've always thought there must be better ways of simulating the universe than starting a 3D CA at the big bang and running it forward a few billion years in femtosecond increments until something interesting happens.
please report this issue in Github. I'd be happy to help.. It sounds like fugitive is being triggered in a directory that isn't being tracked by git... but it would be better to continue the dialogue on Github.
>I have no over-excitement just because something comes from Rich Hickey.

Ahh, sour grapes and/or jealousy. Yes, it IS obvious now.
And assembly would be faster again?

Both the C compiler and the JVM JIT target machine code. I don't buy that one is automatically & universally superior to the other. You can equally argue that the JIT will always be superior because it's run-time aware.
I know you'd miss the syncing, but why not let me just cc something@thread.is instead of having to gain access to my google account? It would be usable to people on exchange as well that way...
Looks nice! But instead of authorizing you access to my gmail account, I'd rather just forward you a thread. You could parse the incoming mail, and reply me the link.
It always struck me that a legal hack was Microsoft's real, core innovation -- the whole OEM installation agreement, more than anything to do with the superior quality of its operating system. It took decades for the regulators to catch on.
Why is icanhazcheezburger sponsoring this?
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the promise of meego was one original reasons I picked up the N900. Between Jolla continuing w/ Meego, FirefoxOS, and a newly open WebOS - I'm quite bullish on the future of handsets.
Btw, this has since been changed to: https://github.com/isaacsanders/omniauth-stripe-connect
Maybe if someone invented a "new" programming language where programs were valid JSON, without mentioning the obvious connection to Lisp, programmers could be tricked into using it.

Programmers seem to love adopting the features of Lisp, as long as they can re-assure themselves they are not actually programming in Lisp.
I wish Bitpay or BitInstant would partner with mFoundry!
Thank you for the link. I'm already up and running. It's much faster than the SDK VM, boots almost instantly. Works perfectly with ADB and is just a pleasure to use.
host level (para)virtualization vs. os level virtualization. The latter allows significantly increased density while the former enjoys much better isolation, customization and usually* more reliable resource reservations.
I just installed this last night. I'm comparing it with https://github.com/fisadev/fisa-vim-config

Right now, fisa is slightly ahead because it is a bit faster.
I just tried this out.

Looks good, though I have a comment. How come I don't see the date and time per email on the thread?
Unrelated, but one of my favorite things about Antarctica is a terribly irreverent and incredibly amusing activity of many temporary residents in the area -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club
IIRC, the TrueType hinting patents have all expired, so FreeType enables it by default now. Whether that looks better than the auto-hinter depends a lot on the specific font file.
How to create a C++11 project with Xcode
Yes, there are some critical algorithms which will be always be faster in C.

In practice it's significantly more difficult to optimize all your code based on deep knowledge of architectures, compilers, and even compiler versions than it is to just let a JIT compiler optimize at runtime.
Oddly enough, this very blog post is the only Google result I get for the quoted phrase. Anyway, the thing looks inkblotty and fractally enough that I could plausibly mistake any frosty island for it in a dream. Probably related to the fact that we regularly have déjà vu in places of which (we think) we’ve dreamt. Or at least I do.
Let's break apart these misconceptions:

1. You can buy phones from retailers who aren't carriers.

2. You can buy phones from carriers without signing up for a contract. If Sprint won't sell what you want to buy, then goto Verizon or another who will.

3. You don't need a phone to go wifi-only. This would work with almost any internet device, including tablets and laptops. The concept is the same.
Also, you can disable/reduce hinting on Ubuntu/Linux to get a rendering closer to OS X, which I’ve been doing since about Gnome 2.0.
While this is a neat idea, it seems to fall to the same problem I've seen elsewhere, little to no transparency as to where a project is going. For example, I was suggested Shumway (JS flash emulator). I'm sent to the github page for it (https://github.com/mozilla/shumway). They give a small summary and a little info on getting an installation working. Nothing however I can see on where a new contributor would start with helping out. No road-map, no "we need this feature and no one has claimed to work on it yet", this bug needs to be fixed for the next release, etc.

I'll admit I've never contributed to FOSS so maybe a veteran can fill me in but I see this a lot with projects. Some have decent issue/bug tracking, but I often find it very difficult to determine how a project is supposed to progress, what features are needed for the next release, where do they stand currently, etc. I assume a lot is decided out-of-band through e-mails and IRC.
"For example, C++ smart pointers are slow in multi-threaded situations
because the reference count manipulation needs to be done under a lock."

Several architectures support atomic increment and decrement operations, so there's no need for any lock.
Libaries like OpenSceneGraph use them for their reference counting.

Also Haskell isn't magical in this regard. Their lock free
implementations will also presumably just use safe atomic operations.
NSS is actually the only suggestion for C programmers (no matter how many times you click you're not interested).
Seriously guys, stop this. It's never as simple as "oh man Stripe needs to come to [country I just so happen to live in] because they'd make so much money it can't be that hard." Yes, it can and it is. Stripe is doing everything right - focusing on a quality product and taking small steps to make it available to as many people as possible without damaging the quality of that product. It's a hell of a lot easier for someone in Germany to rip off Stripe and comply with all the German regulations than it is for Stripe to come in with no assets on the ground and figure it all out.

They could be in Asia and the entire EU in under a year, I'm pretty sure. Their platform would implode and we'd all talk about how Stripe used to be good, and now it's worse than PayPal and how the executives screwed the pooch.

To do things right takes time. Months, even years. If Stripe isn't available in your country, maybe you should build it.

Disclosure: I do not work for Stripe, but I've worked with their API as well as the APIs of Piryx/Rally and PayPal. Stripe's is the best (Piryx is a close second but they've transitioned to Rally and last I checked Rally didn't have an API), and I'm as huge a fan as I could be having never processed a penny of real money through their servers.
There are more improvements than just "more sites". Here's the changelog https://www.eff.org/files/Changelog.txt Some highlights:

3.0 (2012-10-04)
* Since version 2.x:
* 1,455 new active rulesets
* UI improvements:
- right-click to view ruleset source in the config window
* Numerous improvements to the SSL Observatory internals, including cached
submissions on hostile networks, better Tor and Convergence integration,
and a new setting to control self-signed cert submission
* New translations: Basque, Czech, Danish, French, Greek, Hungarian,
Italian, Korean, Malaysian, Polish, Slovak, Turkish,
Traditional Chinese
* Relative to 3.0development.8:
* Update the SSL Observatory whitelist of common cert chains
* Fixes, mostly in the CDN/media playback department:
Akamai/CNN, GO.com/ABC, AWS/Amazon Zeitgeist MP3 player,
AWS/Spiegel.tv, Technology Review, Cloudfront/Tunein,
Akamai/Discovery Channel, Beyond Security, OCaml, Gentoo,
Nokia, Widgetbox.com, Squarespace
/001324.html
* Disable buggy: Web.de, AJC.com, Feross, Bestofmedia
* Remove a lot of off-by-default rulesets from the code, since they have
some costs in terms of startup speed and RAM usage
If you're looking for a good online course on how computer systems work from AND gate scale - up to data center size, the iTunesU course <<"Computer Science 61C", UC Berkeley, w/ Daniel Garcia>> is really informative and fun to watch.

http://itunes.apple.com/de/itunes-u/computer-science-61c-001...